Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume III, Part 63

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 986

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(III) Nathaniel, son of John (2) Searle, was born at Northampton, May 3, 1686. He had a grant of three acres and a half at South- ampton in 1748. His son, Nathaniel Jr., had a grant at the same time. Nathaniel Searle was the richest settler of Southampton and the only one boasting of a house of two rooms. Before the meeting house was built his house was used as a place of worship. His home- stead was a number of rods north of the house now or lately owned by George W. Foley and on the same side of the street. The cellar hole is still discernible. He entertained the council when Rev. Mr. Judd was ordained. He drew his first lot in 1730 and built about 1732-35. He had nine sons, of whom Nathaniel is men- tioned below. He had also James and Eliphaz.

(IV) Nathaniel (2), son of Nathaniel (1) Searle, was born about 1720 and came with his father from Northampton to Southampton. His name first appears in 1748 as a grantee of land. He was an ensign in the French and Indian war in the company of Captain Elisha Hawley, 1755. Sons or nephews of Nathaniel : Zophar, Abijah, Simeon, Darius, Bildad. Moses, Aaron, Nathaniel, all of Southampton, served in the revolution. Children : Moses, mentioned below, and others.

(V) Moses, son of Nathaniel (3) Searle, was born at Southampton. He married Dolly Eggleston. Children : Moses Jr., Asa, Jarad, Nathaniel Eggleston, mentioned below ; Dolly.

(VI) Nathaniel Eggleston, son of Moses Searle, was born about 1775 at Southampton. He was educated in the public schools and fol- lowed farming in his native town. Married (first) Zilphia Searle, 1808; she died April, 1832, aged forty-seven. Married (second) Polly Taylor, a native of Ashfield, Massachu- setts. Children: 1. Merrick S., born May 13, 1812. 2. Zilpha Maria, November 23, 1814. 3. Julia, September 14, 1817. 4. Lucy A., Marchi

18, 1820, died October 6, 1893. 5. James Hervey, September 18, 1822. Children of second wife: 6. Enos E., June 5, 1833. 7. Myron Eggleston, mentioned below.

(VII) Myron Eggleston, son of Nathaniel Eggleston Searle, was born at Southampton, June 27, 1837, died at Westfield, November II, 1905. He was educated in the public schools of his native town and at Williston Seminary at Easthampton. He afterward taught school for a time. He established a business college at London, Canada, but after a few years returned to Westfield in 1861 to become station agent on the Canal railroad (now the New York, New Haven & Hart- ford) in that town. He embarked in the retail coal and wood business at Westfield in part- nership with L. B. Blood, his father-in-law ; this continued for several years when Mr. Blood retired and later L. Gladwin was admit- ted to the firm; Mr. Searle retired in 1900. He was a stockholder and prime mover in the organization of the Woronoco Savings Bank, and was serving on the finance committee at the time of his death. For about twenty-five years he was secretary and treasurer of the Westfield Power Company. He was a promi- nent member of the Congregational church, of which he was treasurer thirty-three years, deacon thirty-five years and teacher in the Sunday school for a long time. He was a zealous and faithful Christian, a liberal con- tributor to the church and its benevolence and many other forms of charity. He was a gen- erous supporter also of the Young Men's Christian Association. He was a member of the Westfield Lodge of Odd Fellows and a member of the Royal Arcanum. A strong man in business, characterized by strict integ- rity and fairness, as well as prudence, sagacity and foresight in his affairs. He was devoted to his home, and fond of domestic life, though he gave his time as duty called him into public and church service. He was a Republican in politics. He married, October 21, 1868, A11- gusta Luanna Blood, born March 13, 1844, at Westfield, daughter of Lemuel Bryant and Luanna (Allen) Blood. Her father was born i11 1809 at Ashfield, died April 11, 1901, at Westfield ; her mother, Luanna (Allen) Blood, was born in 1810 in Westfield, died December 3, 1897, at Westfield. Mr. Blood in his early life kept a general store; after many years he sold his retail business and continued a whole- sale dealer in flour and silent partner of his son-in-law, Mr. Scarle ; invested extensively in real estate in Westfield : was selectman of that

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town ; liberal and active member of the Baptist church. Children of Lemuel Bryant and Luanna Blood : i. Gustavus Blood, born 1835, died 1858; ii. Augusta Luanna Blood, born March 13, 1844, mentioned above; iii. Lucelia H. Blood, born 1846, married W. W. Clapp and had four children. Ebenezer Blood, father of Lemuel B. Blood, died at Westfield. Child of Myron Eggleston and Augusta Luanna Searle: Edith Lucenia, born August 20, 1869, died February 23, 1895 ; graduate of Smith College, a gifted, capable, young woman, cut off at the beginning of a promising career of usefulness: the beloved companion of father and mother ; not only her parents but a large circle of friends, especially those of col- lege life, mourned her loss.

FLINT There were four immigrants of this surname who came to New England before 1650-Thomas and William, of Salem, brothers, who arrived here about 1640; Henry, of Braintree; and Thomas, of Concord. William is mentioned in the Salem records in 1642, at which time there is some evidence to show that he had a mother living in this country. Flint street, in Salem, is said to be on land once owned by him and near where his house stood. He died Feb- ruary 2, 1673, aged seventy years, and his widow Alice died October 5, 1700. He left six children, but his posterity is not numerous. None of them are to be found in Salem or vicinity.

(I) Thomas, brother of William Flint, mentioned above, came, so says tradition, from Wales, Great Britain. He was among the first settlers of Salem village, now Danvers, and was mentioned in the town records of Salem as early as 1650, although there is reason to believe he was there much earlier. In 1654 he bought of John Pickering land on the Salem and North Reading road, about six miles from the present court house in Salem. The farm remained in the possession of the family as late as 1860, being occupied then by the heirs of Elijah Flint. He married Ann He died April 15. 1663. Children : I. Thomas. 2. Elizabeth, born April 30, 1650. 3. George, January 6, 1652. 4. John, October 3. 1655. 5. Anna. December 25, 1657; died April, 1663. 6. Joseph, born 1662.

(II) John, son of Thomas Flint, was born October 3, 1655, and lived in Salem Village. He was admitted a freeman in.April, 1690, and died in April, 1730. He married Elizabeth Children: 1. Samuel, born October

12, 1679. 2. John, born February 8, 1681 ; mentioned below. 3. Hannah, born April 4, 1685 ; married, August 21, 1705, John Tarbell. 4. Stephen, born December 29, 1687. 5. Joshua, October 28, 1689. 6. Joseph, February 25, 1693. 7. Lydia, July 20, 1696; married Phillips. 8. Sarah, August 18, 1700; married Bryant. 9. Elizabeth, July 10, 1703; married Benjamin Gillingham.

(III) John (2), son of John (1) Flint, was born February 8, 1681. He was a farmer, and settled at Windham, Connecticut. He married (first) May 5, 1709, Christian Reed, died September 27. 1721 ; (second) March 14. 1722, Lydia Gennings, born April 30, 1695, daughter of Jonathan and Susannah Gennings. Children of first wife: 1. Mary, born April 12, 1710; died August 20, 1716. 2. Samuel, born April 9, 1712. 3. John, born January 23, 1714. 4. Rufus, born October 29, 1716; men- tioned below. Children of second wife: 5. Joseph, born September 13, 1723. 6. Jona- than (twin), born July 10, 1725. 7. Nathan (twin), born July 10, 1725 ; died January 24, 1764. 8. Sybil, born August 25, 1727. 9. Gideon, born July 25, 1729. 10. Mary, born February 25, 1731 ; died October 23, 1746. II. Abial, born April 14. 1733. 12. Lydia, born June 4, 1735.

(IV) Rufus, son of John (2) Flint, was born October 29, 1716, and always spelled his name Flynt. He married, March 13. 1739, Mary Janes. Children : I. Christian, born January 19, 1741. 2. Abel, February 24, 1743. 3. Naomi, March 24, 1745. 4. Jonathan, No- vember 13. 1747 ; mentioned below. 5. Elijah, January 16, 1749.

(V) Jonathan, son of Rufus Flynt, was born November 13, 1747. in Windham, Con- necticut. He was a clothier by trade. He removed to Western, now Warren, Worces- ter county, Massachusetts. He married (first ) a daughter of Ezra Leonard, of Hardwick, Massachusetts. Ezra Leonard was born 1711, an ensign in Captain Warner's company that marched to the relief of Fort William Henry in 1757. Flynt was a soldier in the revolution, from Western, private in Captain Josiah Put- nam's company. Colonel Jedediah Foster's regiment, on the Lexington alarm, April 21, 1775. at Roxbury ; also corporal in Captain Joseph Cutler's company of volunteers, in northern department of the Continental army, a company from Western and Oakham, marching September 24, 1777, to join the army under General Gates.

(VI) Captain Rufus, son of Jonathan Flynt.

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was born in Western, Massachusetts, June 22, 1775. and died January 15, 1836. He removed to Monson, Massachusetts, in 1792, and became a clerk in the store of William Nor- cross. When he came of age he was admitted to partnership with his employer, and contin- ued in trade at Monson all his active life. He was an enterprising and successful merchant, a useful and prominent citizen. He was post- master of Monson in 1826, the first incumbent of that office. He was active in the state militia, and became captain of the Monson company. He was for many years foremost in business and zealous in promoting the public schools of the town. He did considerable banking business. He was one of the corpo- rators and trustees of Monson Academy, and was treasurer for twenty-three years. He held the office of postmaster from his first appointment by President Madison until his death, June 15, 1836. He married. November 30. 1800. Sarah Norcross, born 1780, died 1863. aged eighty-three years, daughter of William Norcross (see Norcross). Children. born at Monson : I. Maria, December 28, 1801 ; married Rev. Lyman Coleman, pro- fessor in Lafayette College, writer of theo- logical books : died at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, leaving two daughters. 2. Rufus, entered Yale College in 1823, and died in 1825, while a student, aged eighteen years. 3. Olivia, March 29, 1809; educated at Monson and New Haven ; died 1837. 4. William Norcross, men- tioned below.

(VII) William Norcross, son of Captain Rufus Flynt, was born in Monson, March 14, 1818, died in Monson, September 28, 1895. He received his education in the public schools and at Monson Academy in his native town. At the age of seventeen he began work in his father's store as clerk, was associated with his father in managing the general store, and when his father died succeeded to the owner- ship of the business. Before his father's death he turned his attention to the quarry which had been opened and worked as early as 1825. He began on a small scale to take out stone, and in 1840 placed the first specimens of the stone on exhibition at Springfield and from that time the business increased rapidly. The quarry is situated one mile north of the village of Monson, covering an area of five hundred acres. The stone is dark-blue and white granite, in apparently inexhanstible quantity, used for dams, buildings, monuments, etc. In 1875 Mr. Flynt built a private railroad two miles in length, with a grade of 158 feet to the

mile, at a cost of about forty thousand dollars. connecting the quarry directly with the New London & Northern railroad. The stone is loaded at the quarry and shipped direct to all parts of the country. Mr. Flynt also owned a large quarry at West Dummerston, Vermont. In 1886 he, with his sons, incorporated the Flynt Building & Construction Company, main office at Palmer, and a very large and prosperous business was conducted from the start. W. N. Flynt, president ; W. K. Flynt, treasurer and general manager. Immense contracts were executed in all parts of the United States, and a business of a million dol- lars a year was not uncommon. The company is still in a flourishing condition. Mr. Flynt kept pace with the great strides in business and business methods. He and his father used to drive together to Boston in the one-horse chaise, and Mr. Flynt preserved a tax-bill of his father's showing that a tax of four dollars was paid on this vehicle in 1812. The coming of the steam railroads when he was a young man made possible the vast business in stone, and he had the foresight to take advantage of the opportunity. Within his lifetime have come the building of the steam and electric railroads and the consequent industrial devel- opment of the whole country. Mr. Flynt retired from active business in 1875, owing to ill health, and since then his business has been conducted by his sons.

Mr. Flynt was active in political and public life. and had held many offices of trust and honor. He had the badge he wore during the Harrison campaign in 1840, when the party slogan was "Tippecanoe and Tyler too," and again in 1888, when he attended the inaugura- tion of Benjamin Harrison, grandson of the first President Harrison. He was town treas- urer of Monson in 1848, and afterward for a period of thirty-one years: represented his district in the general court in 1848, and again in 1861. and was an active and influential member of the house. He was elected to the council under Governor Andrew in 1865, and Governor Bullock in 1866. He was an alter- nate to the Republican national convention at Chicago in 1884. Mr. Flynt was a member of the board of trustees of Monson Academy from 1850 to the time of his death, and for many years was the oldest member of the board. He was one of the original incorpo- rators and stockholders of the Monson State Bank in 1852, and its first president, continu- ing after it received its national charter as the Monson National Bank. He had been presi-

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dent of the Palmer Savings Bank ; director and vice-president of the New England Granite Manufacturers Association, and held various other offices in corporations and organizations to which he belonged. He was a zealous and prominent worker in the Congregational church, and set a noble example of charity and benevolence, giving freely but never seeking publicity for his benefactions. In the town of Monson he opened a park of two hundred acres on the west side, including a menagerie, museum, and an observation tower. Mr. Flynt was known throughout the country in the granite trade as a business man of the highest character. He stood among the fore- most men of affairs in western Massachusetts, and was a powerful factor in the upbuilding and development of the community. He was firm and aggressive in fighting for what he believed right, socially, politically and morally, and no man in his generation exerted a stronger or better influence among his neighbors. He had the respect and confidence of his work- men, the esteem and love of his friends, to an unusual degree.

He married (first) June 4. 1846, Joanna King, born 1820, died September 21, 1850, daughter of Colonel Isaac King, of Palmer. He married (second) November 23, 1852, Eudocia Carter, born January 21, 1822, died November 8. 1906. daughter of Marquis and Sophia (Lyon) Converse. Children, born in Monson : By first wife: I. William K., born December 12. 1850; died February 22, 1886; married Emma King. of Monson; children : i. Mabel King, born May 25, 1874; ii. William N .. January 28, 1878 ; iii. Carrie W., August 18, 1881. Children of second wife, born at Mon- son : 2. Maria L., born March 22, 1854 ; mar- ried Henry A. King, judge of superior court, Massachusetts; children: i. Stanley King, born May II, 1883; ii. Carrie Lyon King, March 15, 1885 ; iii. Ames K. King, June 10, 1892, died in infancy. 3. Rufus, born June 14, 1855, died April 3, 1899; resident at Palmer ; treasurer of Flynt Building & Construction Company ; married. September 12, 1876, Addie Green, died March 15, 1881 ; married (second) February 27, 1883, Lucy Belle Atwood ; chil- dren of first wife: i. Harold, born November 26, 1877, died December 7, 1878; ii. Hattie Green, born March 16, 1879 ; children of sec- ond wife: iii. Eudocia F., born October 4, 1884; iv. Rufus, born March 25, 1886; v. Lyon Kendall, born September 26, 1894. 4. Lyman Coleman, born October 20, 1856; mentioned below. 5. Sarah Converse, born August 13,

1858; married, December 1. 1880, William A. Lincoln, of Springfield ; children : i. Flynt Lin- coln, born March 23, 1882; ii. Horation Lyon Lincoln, born May 28, 1883, died May 4. 1890; iii. Marion Bond Lincoln, born Feb- ruary 23, 1886; iv. Sidney Henry Lincoln, born July 30, 1887 ; v. Edward Converse Lin- coln, born September 8, 1892; vi. Katherine Blake Lincoln, born April 21, 1896. 6. Ella Eudocia, born July 7, 1861 ; married, October 3, 1883, William C. Dewey, banker and real estate broker of New York City ; children: i. Alonzo Nelson Dewey, November 17, 1886; ii. Eudocia Elinor Dewey, January 15, 1890; iii. Dorothy P. Dewey, April 3, 1891. 7. George Converse, born June 27, 1863, men- tioned below.

(VIII) Lyman Coleman, son of William Norcross Flynt, was born in Monson, October 20, 1856. He was educated in the public schools and at Monson Academy. He became associated in business with his father, and with his brothers continued the general store and quarry after the father retired from business in 1875. The store in Monson is now one of the largest and most flourishing general stores in that section. The store now has a frontage of one hundred and twenty feet and several thousand feet of floor space, having all up-to- date contrivances for doing business to advan- tage, yet part of the store is the original build- ing in which William Norcross, great-grand- father of the present proprietor, as well as his grandfather. Rufus Flynt, and his father, William Norcross Flynt, were in business as general merchants. Lyman Coleman is in charge of the mercantile business in which his brother is also interested. He is also presi- dent of the Flynt Building & Construction Company ; president of the W. N. Flynt Granite Company ; vice-president of the Mon- son National Bank: trustee of the Monson Savings Bank, and of the Monson Academy. He is a member of Royal Arcanum. In poli- tics he is a Republican, and he is an attendant of the Congregational church. He married, June 24, 1886, Harriet C. Hussey, born at Cornwall, New York, March 5, 1862, daugh- ter of William Allen Hussey, of New Bed- ford, and Harriet R. Coe, of Little Compton, Rhode Island. Children: I. Robert Hussey, born April 2, 1887. 2. Ruth Burleigh, Sep- tember 29, 1888. 3. Olivia Coleman, October 27, 1890. 4. Esther Holmes, February 12, 1894. (VIII) George Converse, son of William Norcross Flynt, was born in Monson, June 27, 1863. He was educated in the public schools

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of his native town and Monson Academy. He is interested with his brothers in the enter- prises which his father formerly owned and developed. . He is treasurer of the W. N. Flynt Granite Company, of which he has immediate charge; secretary and director of the Flynt Building & Construction Company ; and trustee of the Monson Savings Bank. He was a prime mover in organizing the electric light company, and in getting the electric rail- road built to Monson, was a large stockholder in both companies, and president of the Elec- tric Light Company. He is a member of Quaboag Council, Royal Arcanum, of Palmer. In politics he is a Republican, and he is a con- stant attendant of the Congregational church. He married, June 21, 1892, Helen Pratt Need- ham, born in Brooklyn, New York, daughter of Henry Miles Needham, born in Wales, Massachusetts. They have one child, Henry Needham, born July 2, 1893.

CLOUGH The Cloughs or Cluffs of New England have as progenitors several immigrants of the

name in its various spellings, each of whom became the forbear of a numerous tribe of descendants.

John Clough, tailor, born about 1613, who died July 26, 1691, was a passenger in the ship "Elizabeth," in 1635, was in Watertown, Massachusetts Bay Colony, was made a free- man of the colony May 18, 1642, and with his wife Susanna removed to Salisbury, and the Cloughs of Maine and New Hampshire own him as their progenitor, through one of three sons, John, Thomas or Samuel. William Clough, bricklayer, settled in Charlestown, and married, about 1656, Mary, daughter of Rich- ard Adams, of Molden. He was admitted to the church in Charlestown in 1661, and was clerk of the second military company of Charlestown. He had sons Joseph, William, Benjamin, Samuel, Nathaniel and John. Then we find John, the Boston immigrant, and one of the name in Plymouth Colony. But from none of these can we trace the Cloughs of the Connecticut Valley, both in Massachusetts and Connecticut. We therefore look to another John Clough, who appeared in Hartford and was made a freeman of Connecticut in 1654, as probable ancestor of the Connecticut Valley Cloughs.

(III) Jonathan, probably grandson of John Clough, the immigrant, was born before the opening of the eighteenth century, and was one of the proprietors of the town of Thomp-

son, colony of Hartford, where a church gov- ernment was formed January 28, 1730, of which he was a corporate member, being num- ber eight in the published list of incorporators of the church and town. The name of his wife does not appear. He had at least four chil- dren : I. Jonathan ; see forward. 2. Ephriam, joined the church in 1741. 3. John, joined the church in 1742. 4. Obediah, joined the church 1746. 5. Ruth, joined the church in 1750. These children were probably about twenty years of age when they united with the church. (IV) Jonathan (2), eldest son of Jonathan (1) Clough, was born about 1715, and joined the church in Thompson, Connecticut, of which his father was a founder in 1738. He married and removed to Belchertown, Massa- chusetts, where he carried on a farm, and where he died at the age of ninety-four years, about 1810. Children, all born in Belcher- town: I. Dan, married, and had children : Desire, born 1800; Jonathan (3d) 1802-3; Abner 1805. 2. Timothy, see forward. 3. John, married ( first ) Sarah -. (second) Louisa -; children: Sarah, born 1796; Keziah, 1798; Charlotte, 1800; Clarissa, 1802; Tovisa, 1804; Sophronia, 1805; Nancy, 1811; Ann Jane, 1814; John, 1816; Mary, 1818.

(V) Timothy, second son of Jonathan (2) Clough, was born in Thompson, Connecticut, about 1770. He removed to Ludlow, Hamp- den county, Massachusetts, and thence to Belchertown. He married Lucy - -----; chil- dren : I. Abigail, born 1792. 2. Susa, 1794. 3. Hannah, 1797. 4. Olive, 1801. 5. Candice (twin), 1801. 6. Timothy, 1804. 7. Jonathan, see forward. 8. Daniel, 1808. 9. Daniel, 1811.

(V1) Jonathan (3), second son and seventh child of Timothy and Lucy Clough, was born in Ludlow, Massachusetts, May 22, 1806, and died in Belchertown, Massachusetts, in Au- gust, 1855. He married, in 1828, Almira Leavens, of Thompson, Connecticut, who was born November 1, 1806, and died in Belcher- town, Massachusetts, April 23. 1899. In the Congregational church at Thompson, Connec- ticut, Elizabeth, Hannah, James, Mary and Noah Leavens are named among its prominent members, Elizabeth joining the church in 1741. They lived first in Perry, New York, and then in Belchertown. Their first two children were born in Perry. Children: 1. James W., May 10, 1826. 2. Jefferson Moody ; see forward. 3. Almira C., October 21, 1831. 4. Timothy L., December 6, 1833. 5. Guernsey A., April 25, 1835. 6. Merev, October 17, 1838. 7. Henry S., July 9, 1842. 8. Emily M., March

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Genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of the state of Massachusetts, Volume III, Part 63

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848- Publication date: 1910 Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company Number of Pages: 986

Author: Cutter, William Richard, 1847-1918, ed; Adams, William Frederick, 1848-
Publication date: 1910
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical publishing company
Number of Pages: 986